h2xs comes with perl by default, so most people who have perl are already going to have h2xs. So your title isn't quite right (I know, pick, pick, pick).

Yeah -- I should have said something like "A tool you've gotta try". I knew that h2xs was part of the Perl distribution.

Anyway, h2xs is useful for building general modules, but it has a lot of stuff that is useful only for XS modules that you'll have to remove for PP modules.

Right -- I figured that from the 'xs' at the end, even though it sounds like Ingy's Inline::C is the preferred method when linking C code into a Perl script/.

I just know that watching my colleague build all this stuff, everything was pre-cooked and ready to go. Thanks for the link to ExtUtils::ModuleMaker, I'll definitely check that out.

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